I was fooling around in Blender and Yafray and suddenly came up with this idea for another Gentoo Linux wallpaper. It was also meant as a test to see if I could replicate the photorealism from Yafray with using only Blender Internal.
As it turns out, for this particular scene, the biggest difference between yafray and blender apart from memory usage and rendertimes is color bleeding. The self illuminated parts glow onto the floor, thanks to radiosity and bounced lighting.
Still, I prefer the blender render, since you can get the shadows smoother in a shorter render time.

This was originally rendered as a dual desktop image at a resolution of 3200x1200, the render time was about 4 hours, using only one Area light set to 16x. No AO was used and OSA was set to 16.

Changelog:

Added a plain Widescreen version without the Gentoo "G". Resolution is 1920x1200.

Site back up again!

Hi guys, some of the links to the wallpapers point to my website.
My bank account was kinda low when the provider tried to deduct their fees for hosting, so the site was offline for a while and therefore some of the links didnt work.

This looks great, but unfortunately your website is dead/down, and the wallpapers can no longer be found, including on archive.org's historical archive. I even googled for the wallpaper filenames, and they don't appear anywhere.

Someone should delete this entry, because its not accessible any longer.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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